Tagovailoa shines, No. 1 Alabama routs Louisville 51-14
Massive blow out here. I expected a bit more out of Louisville somehow. Skimmed through most of the last half of the game.
Month: September 2018
👓 We Aren’t Ready For Hurricanes Like Florence | Five Thirty Eight
Despite Harvey and Rita and Sandy and Katrina and …
A FiveThirtyEight ChatHurricane Florence is headed for the Carolinas. What should the country do to prepare for storms that are getting stronger? NOAA / GETTY IMAGES cwick (Chadwick Matlin, features editor): Hello, everyone! We’re here to discuss the tremendously big, tremendously dangerous hurricane headed for the coast of the Carolinas. It has been a relatively quiet season — before Thursday, no named hurricane had made landfall in the contiguous 48 — but Hurricane Florence is piercing the calm. Many other sites have great graphics about Florence and the devastation it will likely cause, so we’re here to talk more about the science of what’s happening — and what governments should do about these destructive hurricanes that keep heading for our shores.
First question for you all: What about Florence is most striking for you?
👓 Here are the subjects our reporters enjoy covering the least | Ars Technica
A look at why reporting on some areas of science is just asking for pain.
👓 General Motors activates OnStar Crisis Assist for Hurricane Florence | Ars Technica
It will offer real-time directions, free calling, and Wi-Fi, among other aid.
👓 Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals | New York Times
A senior official at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has received millions of dollars in payments from companies that are involved in medical research.
This makes me think that researchers should have a page on their websites (like impressum, about, or other similar pages) that lists all of their potential research conflicts? What to call it? A Disclosure page, a Financial Ties page? It could have a list of current as well as past affiliations, along with dates, and potentially the value amounts paid (which are apparently available publicly in separate filings). In addition to posting their potential conflicts and disclosures on their own websites, researchers could easily cut and paste them into their publications (or at least their students, post docs, fellow researchers, or secretaries could do this when they’re apparently too busy to make a modicum of bother to do it themselves.)
I’m kind of shocked that major publishers like Elsevier are continually saying they add so much value to the chain of publishing they do, yet somehow, in all the major profits they (and others) are making that they don’t do these sorts of checks as a matter of course.
👓 Top cancer expert forgot to mention $3.5M industry ties—he just resigned | Ars Technica
For years, José Baselga didn’t mention industry links in dozens of top medical pubs.
👓 Using Medieval DNA to track the barbarian spread into Italy | Ars Technica
Cemeteries from the Longobard spread into Italy tell tales of migration and mixing.
👓 Sorry, Sony Music, you don’t own the rights to Bach’s music on Facebook | Ars Technica
Public shaming forces publisher to abandon ridiculous claim to classical music.
When is the industry going to finally fix this issue of false positives like this. Surely in the case of Bach, it should be even easier?
👓 Limo firm to Uber: You misclassify your drivers as contractors, which is unfair | Ars Technica
Diva Limousine sues Uber, claims its reliance on contractors is illegal.
I wonder what percentage of their valuation is built upon screwing their employees out of benefits by calling them independent contractors?
👓 New court ruling could force Uber, Lyft to convert drivers to employees | Ars Technica
California Supreme Court: It'll be tougher for firms to not have bona fide employees.
👓 Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovered Radio Pulsars in 1974, But the Credit Went to Her Advisor; In 2018, She Gets Her Due, Winning a $3 Million Physics Prize | Open Culture
Say you made a Nobel-worthy scientific discovery and the prize went to your thesis supervisor instead. How would you take it?
👓 Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings | Open Culture
The Walrus is… Dolly Parton? Not every record yields gold when played backwards or spun more slowly than recommended, but a 45 of Parton’s 1973 hit “Jolene” played at 33RPM not only sounds wonderful, it also manages to reframe the narrative.
👓 MIT Students Solve the Spaghetti Breaking Mystery That Stumped Richard Feynman | Open Culture
Even thirty years after his death, Richard Feynman remains one of the most beloved minds in physics in part because of how much attention he paid to things other than physics: drawing and painting, cracking safes, playing the bongos, breaking spaghetti.
👓 Don’t Call 911 If You See a Coyote, Unless It’s Carrying ACME-Branded Products: The Office of Sheriff, Monroe County, New York | Open Culture
Someone in the Office of Sheriff, in Monroe County, New York, has a good sense of humor. And if you're from the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies generation, you will get a good laugh. In other news, Warner Bros. just announced that it's developing an animated Wile E.
I see so many urban coyotes this is even funnier to me.
👓 The Hobo Code: An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s Train-Hoppers | Open Culture
Many of us now use the word hobo to refer to any homeless individual, but back in the America of the late 19th and early 20th century, to be a hobo meant something more.